0 something which ought not to have been said, done etc, a blunder -- brøler; bommert
a politician who is prone to making gaffes.
I have to say that in my country we make the occasional gaffe in this regard.
That comment may have been a political gaffe and a blunder, but we are not making much of that because such things occasionally happen.
I shall go on to refer to something else which may also have been a gaffe.
I hope, by the way, that that particular gaffe will not be repeated year after year.
We know what awful gaffes we made.
Newspapers sometimes refer to them as medical gaffes.
I believe he described it as a gaffe; well, everyone makes gaffes.
He may not have meant that but it was a gaffe on his part to put it in a letter.
